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ShredMetrics Awarded 2024 Operational Impact Award by i-SIGMA for Pioneering Q-Shred Software

Posted on April 22, 2024April 22, 2024

ShredMetrics’ Commitment to Innovation and Efficiency in Shredding Management Recognized at Prestigious Industry Event. ShredMetrics, a leader in shredding management software, has been honored with the 2024 Operational Impact Award by the International Secure Information Governance & Management Association (i-SIGMA) for its innovative Q-Shred product. This prestigious award recognizes our commitment to operational efficiency and […]

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ShredMetrics is proud to sponsor NAID’s Shred School 2023

Posted on September 17, 2020April 22, 2024

For the fourth year ShredMetrics is proud to be back as an official sponsor of this year’s NAID Shred School®. Shred School is the premier industry training program for secure data destruction professionals, hosted by i-SIGMA  This year will feature a live meeting in New Orleans. Attendees will dive into the secure destruction industry including actionable […]

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Routing – an Old Question with New Answers

Posted on June 15, 2020June 15, 2020

We hear a lot about the need to better route trucks, so out of curiosity we did a web search.  The oldest reference we could find was a section about the need for a “good route” in a Travelling Salesman handbook printed in Germany in 1832!  Some things don’t change, whether you’re selling from a […]

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Memorial Day 2020

Posted on May 26, 2020May 27, 2020

As a kid I knew how Memorial Day would start.  My Dad was a member of the Greatest Generation, who island-hopped through the Pacific Theatre as a member of the 5th Army Air Force.  He never talked about the war, but this one day a year he put on his uniform and marched at the […]

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Working from Home with Q-Shred

Posted on May 22, 2020May 23, 2020

We have a Q-Shred User with an office staff of 5 people.  There are 2 Scheduler/CSR’s, a Bookkeeper, and 2 part-time general office assistants.  Their office is currently buzzing normally with the team booking jobs and dispatching trucks, but with one big new difference.  Due to Covid-19, not one of them is physically in the […]

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Responding to Covid-19

Posted on May 12, 2020May 22, 2020

It was the second week of March and here in New York we didn’t like what we were seeing.  It was still a week and a half away from the “New York on PAUSE” order, but the writing was clear on the wall, so on Friday the 13th of March we pushed out our first Covid-19 […]

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Time to Sharpen the Axe

Posted on May 11, 2020May 11, 2020

“If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.” Abraham Lincoln Maybe Honest Abe said that and maybe he didn’t – but the point is equally valid either way.  If a process is inefficient (or your axe is too dull), you are going to work harder […]

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